Jill Harth says Trump was “relentless” in his unwanted attempts to have sex with her when she worked with him.

Just when you thought he couldn’t possibly have any more skeletons come out of his closet, a 2005 recording of Donald Trump having a conversation with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, in which the presidential candidate talks about moving on a woman “like a bitch” went viral on Friday, sparking mass outrage.

After it was leaked by The Washington Post, the video, which features Trump – who clearly didn’t know his mic was turned on – telling Bush on the way to a set, “When you’re a star, they [women] let you do it, you can do anything… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything,” among other lewd musings, prompted 39 Republican leaders to denounce Trump and vow not to vote for the nominee over the weekend.

And now, almost 20 years after she filed a lawsuit against the Republican nominee for attempted rape, makeup artist Jill Harth (inset, with Trump in 1993) has come forward to speak publicly about her repeated unwanted sexual encounters with Trump.

In a new New York Times interview, Harth recalled how Trump exploited her attempts to forge a business partnership with him by advancing upon her sexually on multiple occasions.

“He was relentless…I didn’t know how to handle it,” Harth revealed.

“He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again, and I had to physically say, “What are you doing? Stop it”. It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with [my boyfriend] George, he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?”

Trump was dating actor Marla Maples at the time, though Harth said that wasn’t a deterrent.

“He was constantly working on me during that time and that took a toll on me,” Harth explained in a recent interview with The Guardian.

Perhaps the final nail in his coffin, this latest scandal has seen the number of Republican leaders who no longer support Trump swell to more than 150, according to a report by The New York Times.

Even former Republican presidential nominee John McCain has said it’s now “impossible” to support the 70 year-old candidate.

“I have wanted to support the candidate our party nominated. He was not my choice, but as a past nominee, I thought it important I respect the fact that Donald Trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set. I thought I owed his supporters that deference,” McCain said.

“But Donald Trump’s behavior this week, concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boasts about sexual assaults, make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy. Cindy and I will not vote for Donald Trump.”

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